## Gopher Game Programming

Gopher Game Programming

by

Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

## Gopher Game Programming

* dotg engine explanation
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* gophdungeon
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* seeedcluster fun
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* hackathon

## dotg

Day Of The GrParazyd (dotg) was created during and after FOSDEM some
years ago, to make fun of the stuff that happened around a hackerspace
party.
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There are connections to reality, there is much fiction, there are many
messages for the player.
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It is an evolvement from pure gopher ascii art on gopher to fiction with
state, inventory, sessions, different paths and of course MANY memes.
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We had two extensions, the "French" and the "British" extension.
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The rough gaming story is to go to a hacker party in Brussels and either
find the way to the next act or go home.

## dotg

Let us go together through the "British" gaming path of act-1, for
understanding the fun.
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	gophers://bitreich.org/1/dotg
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What did we just do?
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	$ git clone git://bitreich.org/dotg
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index.dcgi
start.dcgi
host.dcgi
Balcony.dcgi
Bench.dcgi
inventory.dcgi
use.dcgi
Bench.sh
/br/gopher/dotg/act-i/80.147.143.201
/br/gopher/dotg/act-i/80.147.143.201/toilet2/Cocaine

## dotg

Conclusion
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* dotg is a nice game
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* the engine was made fast, has much modularity, can be reused
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* more modularity would have helped with further development

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Have fun finding all paths!

## gophdungeon

gopher://farragofiction.com/1 showcase

## gophdungeon

        % mkdir gophdungeon
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        % git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
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        % cd geomyidae && make && ./geomyidae -b $(pwd)/../gophdungeon -p 7070&
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        % mkdir -p gophdungeon/NORTH/WEST/EAST/NORTH/SOUTH/WEST/NORTH
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        % ed gophdungeon/NORTH/WEST/EAST/NORTH/SOUTH/WEST/NORTH/ending.txt
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        i
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        You reached the ending!
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        .
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        w
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        q
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        % git clone git://bitreich.org/sacc
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        % cd sacc && make && ./sacc gopher://localhost:7070
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        # Have fun!
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## gophdungeon

Ideas:
* make it some RAG AI game
	* all steps are a big text file and the LLM/AI is hallucinating
* more directions
* different index formats
* all kind of file formats and plumbing
* all kind of themes

## seeedcluster

	git://bitreich.org/brcon2025-hackathons/seeedcluster

	$ nc -v bitreich.org 7000

How about some 'cluster image' of all output shown?

## Hackathon

	git://bitreich.org/brcon2025-hackathons/gopher-game-programming

* witch burning game
* nordic walking game
* pilgrimage game
* sword fighting insulting game like monkey island
* gophdungeon variations

Other ideas:
* Inform-7 hacking
	* https://codeberg.org/funhack/bornhackadventure
* Wiki text adventure
	* https://kevan.org/wikitext/

Please send us links to what you made on #bitreich-con / #bitreich-en!

## Thanks for listening!

Thanks for listening!

## Questions

Do you have questions / suggestions?

You can send them afterwards to Christoph Lohmann <20h@-r36.net> too.